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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] mips: add vdso support
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:26:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453839994-7649-2-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453839994-7649-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de>

vdso support is available on mips starting with kernel 4.4, see kernel
commit a7f4df4e21 "MIPS: VDSO: Add implementations of gettimeofday()
and clock_gettime()" for details.

In Linux kernel 4.4.0 the mips code returns -ENOSYS in case it can not
handle the vdso call and assumes the libc will call the original
syscall in this case. Handle this case in musl. Currently Linux kernel
4.4.0 handles the following types: CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

These are some measurements of calling clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
&tp); 1.000.000 times.

without vdso:
root@OpenWrt:/# time ./vdso-test
real 0m 0.95s
user 0m 0.24s
sys 0m 0.70s

with vdso:
root@OpenWrt:/# time /usr/bin/vdso-test
real 0m 0.35s
user 0m 0.34s
sys 0m 0.00s

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
---
 arch/mips/syscall_arch.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/syscall_arch.h b/arch/mips/syscall_arch.h
index e74e0ad..39c0ea3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/syscall_arch.h
+++ b/arch/mips/syscall_arch.h
@@ -161,3 +161,7 @@ static inline long __syscall6(long n, long a, long b, long c, long d, long e, lo
 	if (n == SYS_fstatat) __stat_fix(c);
 	return r2;
 }
+
+#define VDSO_USEFUL
+#define VDSO_CGT_SYM "__vdso_clock_gettime"
+#define VDSO_CGT_VER "LINUX_2.6"
-- 
2.7.0.rc3



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 20:26 [PATCH v3 1/2] vdso: clock_gettime: call normal syscall in case of an error Hauke Mehrtens
2016-01-26 20:26 ` Hauke Mehrtens [this message]
2016-01-27 17:11 ` Rich Felker

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